Backblaze/YouTube/24/05/How To/Get Started with rclone and b2

• Getting Started with Rclone and Backblaze B2 - YouTube

  • My Notes

    • great overview of the rclone backblaze integration. In particular:
      • the note about rclone/EnvVar/RCLONE_FAST_LIST
      • the tour of rclone commands was useful
        • especially use of rclone/sync to sync a folder (presumably similar to rsync?)and rclone/--dry-run to preview elements.

  • #Video

    • • 00:45 setting up integration between Backblaze/B2 and rclone

        • 00:45 creating a Backblaze/App Key
          • id and secret
        • 01:05 installing rclone/install
          • using precompiled binary
        • 01:29 rclone/config
          • creating a "remote" - n for New remote
          • selecting Backblaze/B2 at the top
          • 02:09 rclone option for hard_delete
            • he goes with soft deletes

      • 02:30 sample usage - rclone/lsd to list directories (buckets in Backblaze/B2)

        • 02:30 rclone lsd b2: lists buckets.
          • *presumably this lsd is short for list directories; rclone sees each bucket as a top level directory
          • requires : - the address could come after this.
          • here b2 is the name of the rclone/remote that he assigned to his backblaze b2 bucket.

      • 02:50 note Backblaze/B2/API/class B and Backblaze/B2/API/class C have daily rate limit and are paid after that; use rclone/--fast-list option or rclone/EnvVar/RCLONE_FAST_LIST to prevent exceeding them

        • 02:50 --fast-list option
          • with b2 it treats the bucket as the top level directory
          • by default, rclone retrieves
          • 03:30 class A, B, C calls
            • Backblaze/B2/API/class A: uploading files
              • always free
            • Backblaze/B2/API/class B: downloading files
            • Backblaze/B2/API/class C: creating buckets and listing files
            • you get daily free amount of class B and C files, then it's not free
            • if you have deeply nested directory tree (100k files) then rclone can quickly start to rack up charges
          • 04:12 rclone can fetch in batches of 1000 uses --fast-list and they recommend it
            • this uses more memory but it's more convenient
            • they recommend it
            • 04:32 you can use --fast-list w every command but export RCLONE_FAST_LIST=true rclone/EnvVar/RCLONE_FAST_LIST

      • 04:50 creating a Backblaze/B2/Bucket with rclone mkdir b2:rclone-demo-1 - rclone/mkdir

        • rclone sees each bucket as a top level directory
          • so mkdir here is making a bucket in backblaze
        • 05:27 copying file in with [[rclone/copy]] and using rclone/ls to see them.
          • using rclone/cat to retrieve the contents of the file

      • 05:55 keeping a folder in sync with rclone/sync

        • using rclone/--dry-run
          • recommended for sync or rclone/delete